Blackie's Redemption

Blackie's Redemption

An absorbing drama of the underworld

1919 · 50 min · Crime, Drama, Romance

Shrewd crook Boston Blackie is determined to go straight. At a celebration held on the eve of his marriage to Mary Dawson, Fred the Count plants a stolen jewel and Blackie is arrested and sentenced to twenty years in jail. Fred the Count tries to win Blackie's fiancée, but the honorable Mary rejects him. Blackie's only hope for escape is from the hospital, so he manages to get into a weakened state. He escapes from the hospital, but is trailed by the warden. Blackie refuses to shoot the defenseless man, and the warden recognizes Blackie as an honorable person and allows him to escape. Blackie frames the Count, and leaves for Honolulu with Mary

Directed by John Ince · Written by Jack Boyle

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Bert Lytell Boston Blackie
Alice Lake Mary Dawson
Henry Kolker Fred the Count
Bernard J. Durning Sober Dent
Jack Duffy The Dove
Gertrude Short Baby Doll
Joseph Kilgour The Warden
William Musgrave Little Squirrel
Don Bailey Chief of Detectives
Wilton Taylor Detective Mack
Ah Toy Chinese Waiter

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